I finally got off my *** and fought the last Lord of Cinder, and that second stage is brutal without help especially with the teleporting lock-on loss bullshit . Just have Nameless King and and Ermac left. Gonna collect every item I need for trophies first then finish and start NG+.

Ermac?

Shojindo wrote:

Also I like your fashion souls Pol. She looks purty in the witch gear.

Actually, the clothing is the black set you get by murdering Yuria. Only the hat is the witch set.

I'm playing around with the flame witch set for the Nameless King, though I'll probably go back to the black set/hat after that.

That looks pretty neat. Glad I didn't wrap my game over into a NG+ yet.

Did start a new character(my Sorcerer, Corvyn). Sorcery sucks on Crystal Sage, fyi. Even after grabbing the scrolls from the swamp for some more power. Was getting frustrated to the point of considering level grinding out some points in Vigor so I could survive trading with him.

Never knew that poison lasted so long with that bird staff. Also I find it funny that there is a Magic Def shield after you fight the magic based boss.

You can get the dark hand before that if you want, though. That's only 2 MDef behind the Crest shield. You can also get twisted wall of light, which might be hilarious and was my plan B for that fight.

So my roommate is doing his first(well, second, he gave up on the first pretty early) run-through, in which he has decided that he's getting his Vigor up to 99 before he does anything else, now that he has the stats to wield a Raw Astora Sword.

To make things hilarious, he had missed 3 bone shards, so he was in the Catacombs with his flasks taking 6-7 to heal from low to full.

I tried. He isn't having it. I tried convincing him to at least go Vit for a while to get the static defense increases(and get him out of fat rolling while wearing Havel's ring), but not even that would fly.

And honestly, Vigor Softcaps at 26 and 40(after 26, HP goes up slower, but you start getting heavy increases to frostbite resist til 40; 27 gets you a round 1k hp, iirc). But it's his character to ***** up. Not my place to say much.

Speaking of things that are making me lose faith in humanity...anyone here ever try sunbroing Yhorm? I did six runs yesterday. In four of them, it was at least three of us, and I was the only one with a Storm Ruler. In one, only me and the other sunbro had one. The other, there were four of us all using them. It was kinda hilarious. Wish I'd remembered to record it.

Also, I'm thinking of rolling my next character as something of a tribute to Shalltear Bloodfallen, the Bloody Valkyrie of Nazarick. Thinking something like 27vig, 24att, 30end, 15vit, 18str/dex, 15 int/fth, 40lck. Then I'd wield Hollow Warden Twinblades and use either Carthus Rouge(PvP or bosses) or Blessed Weapon, both pontiff eye rings, fire witch's set(diff helm). Situationally: Power within, regeneration, tears of denial and hidden body. Apparently with the twinblades and the rouge, you proc bleed ridiculously quickly. Think it would be interesting for bosses, and might even do some invading.

Shalltear's weapon was a lance, wasn't it? It's too bad the Executioner's Chariot Lance doesn't exist anymore, maybe you can use Arstor's Spear from the tree for the HP recovery or the Great Lance or Drang Twinspears for Bleed.

Playthroughs 2/3 done. Finally got the hang of miracles. Apparently they don't want you ranging anything. Right on something's *** and use the talisman L2. Sorcerer had no trouble with last two bosses, though I got lazy and Hidden Bodied past the non-boss wyvern.

Blood build is hilarious in PvP. You can actually tell the moment when the opponent craps their pants. It usually happens right after they eat just one combo and bleed and are suddenly below half health.

It's unfortunate that I suck at PvP. Still, moderate success. Working on getting Anri's sword for PvE stuff, as these damn sword hit like wet noodles against anything unbleedable. Was doing about 1k damage against Pontiff with every single L2/R2/L1 combo, which was always followed by backing out to regain stamina.

Considering doing a Quality Astora Greatsword build themed after the holy dragon knight "Touch Me" and playing as a Blue Sentinel/Darkmoon next.

If you see me on some morning or in the wee hours, hit me up. I'm down.

Also, I'm thinking I'm gonna plat this game, making it my third Plat. Probably use my pyromancer since I've been thinking of finding an excuse to use the Crystal Chime to give her some sick versatility against bosses where Magic or Lightning are better than Fire and Dark. Looking at the requirements, it's really not like it'd be hard. Just need to make it to NG++ and farm up a couple covenants.

Semi-related: Lords of the Fallen is free for PS+ members this month on the PS4.

I know some souls fans hated it but I actually enjoyed it enough to play twice. Some builds work ridiculously better than others such as 2 handed weapon jump attacking but once you get over the speed differences the combat system is not too bad. It can be frustrating in places but you can get some strong weapons early if you know the trick and that helps smooth out what is otherwise a somewhat uneven difficulty curve.

*In other news I am playing Fall Out 4 again (500+ hours now) since Nuka World DLC came out.I should stop buying new games for a while I am just replaying the stuff I like over and over these days while my library collects dust.

Edited, Sep 6th 2016 9:14pm by Shojindo

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